Product assessment reports provide a timely and in-depth evaluation on how leading products and services in a market measure up to their competition. Updated regularly by our industry-leading analysts, product assessment reports deliver an objective and un-biased look at a product's strengths and weaknesses, ratings on how well the product meets specific customer buying criteria, and relevant product metrics. Compare selected products with side-by-side listings of product metrics and other factors, with a focus on actionable intelligence. Click here to find out how you can get access to Telecom Equipment Buyer.

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Akamai Aura Lumen (Formerly Verivue OneVantage)
With Akamai’s acquisition of Verivue now complete and the vendor’s stated commitment to non-proprietary COTS hardware, what will become of the former Verivue OneVantage solution? Did Akamai acquire Verivue primarily for its O-CDN software? (1/31/2014)Subscriber Access |

ARRIS ConvergeMedia XMS FLEX
ARRIS completed the Motorola Home acquisition in April 2013, and as a result offers two video service product lines, the in-house ConvergeMedia portfolio and the Motorola-sourced M3 Media Server. Will ARRIS keep both solution sets? (7/1/2014)Subscriber Access |

ARRIS/Motorola M-3
ARRIS completed the acquisition of Motorola Home more than a year ago, but has yet to reveal which redundant Motorola Home products will be retained. Will the relatively lackluster Motorola M3 platform be culled from the ARRIS portfolio? (7/1/2014)Subscriber Access |

Cisco Content Delivery Engine (CDE) 250-2Sx
Cisco’s Content Delivery Engine (CDE) 250 is a key component of its Videoscape Distribution Suite (VDS) and overall Videoscape proposition, as well as a leading solution in the VDS sector, topping most contenders in terms of key buying criteria. (7/1/2014)Subscriber Access |

Scalability is defined as the product’s total ingest, storage, and streaming capacity and concurrency for standard definition equivalent streams, defined as a single SD MPEG-2 stream at 3.75 Mbps; Performance is defined as how efficiently this scale is supported.

Reliability and Supportability

Defined as the server and system level fault-tolerance and load-balancing for protecting data, resiliency for preserving stream sessions; Supportability is defined as overall management and upgrade facility.

On Demand Functionality

Includes the product’s capability to support multi-screen delivery, (i.e., TVs, mobile handsets, and Internet connected devices), support of multiple on demand service options such as time-shifted TV, and network-DVR, as well as trick-play functionality and ad insertion capabilities.

Green Design

Incorporates the product’s power consumption per stream/chassis in full configuration and design elements aimed at reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

Market Momentum and Vision

Incorporates elements such as vendor viability and support resources, vendor’s portfolio/platform leverage, as well as visible market traction in terms of partnerships, streams shipped, and customer footprint.